Bob Dylan and the British Sixties (Paperback)

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A Cultural History

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Britain played a key role in Bob Dylan’s career in the 1960s. He visited Britain on several occasions and performed across the country both as an acoustic folksinger and as an electric rock musician. His tours of Britain in the mid-sixties feature heavily in documentary films such as D.A. Pennebaker’s Don’t Look Back and Martin Scorsese’s No Direction Home and the concerts contain some of his most acclaimed ever live performances. Dylan influenced British rock musicians such as The Beatles, The Animals and many others; they, in turn, influenced him.

Yet this key period in Dylan’s artistic development is still under-represented in the extensive literature on Dylan. Tudor Jones rectifies that glaring gap with this deeply researched, yet highly readable account of Dylan and the British 1960s. He explores the profound impact of Dylan on British popular musicians as well as his intense, and at times fraught, relationship with his UK fan base. He also provides much interesting historical context – cultural, social and political – to give the reader a far greater understanding of a defining period of Dylan’s hugely varied career. This is essential reading for all Dylan fans, as well as for readers interested in the tumultuous social and cultural history of the 1960s. 176 pages, paperback.

Contents:

First Time in London: Winter 1962-63

Transatlantic influences: Folk, beat music and R’n’B

Second time in London: May 1964

The 1965 British Tour

Going Electric: Folk-Rock and The Beatles

1965-66 Revisited

“Judas”: The 1966 British Tour

Back to the Country: 1967-68

From Woodstock to the Isle of Wight 1968-69

Conclusion

Tudor Jones is a political historian and is Hon Research Fellow in History of Political Thought at Coventry University, UK. He is a lifelong admirer of Bob Dylan.